Chris Daughtry's "Home" also about US troops?, what about Live's! Options

[SecretInsomnia]

Hey, I dunno of everyone knows the Chris Daughtry album, but the second single of it is coming up (or is already released), and it's Home, track no.3 at the cd.

Although I already knew the track for quite a while and liked it in the beginning, I found this at Billboard.com

"Home," fires up another anthemic rock power ballad, with a lyric dedicated to U.S. troops overseas, a la, "I'm going home to a place I belong/Where your love has always been enough for me." Considering his sure-shot, flame-throwing vocal, name-brand cachet and mass appeal via a No. 1 album—not to mention the song's use as the exit theme each week on "A.I."—"Home" is undeniably where America's heart is.

Ofcourse I made the connection to Home at SFBM and Home at Daughtry before, but I never thought about something behind it, just songs with the same title.
But reading that in Billboard, realising he's a big Live fan, and Live made a song about a US-soldier's view in the Gulfwar a year before Daughtry releases a single Home that also deals with the US troops. And he will have a lot of airplay in the US, regarding his first single!

Man I'm not offending Daughtry, I like his album, but damn, with a better promotion SFBM could be so much more succesfull for Live than that it was (or is). And now Daughtry gets attention with a theme Live did already before in a song.
SFBM had not to fail, there was a lot of hit potential stuff on this album

[Heather]

What are the rest of the lyrics to that song? I didn't think it was a song written about the troops but then I've only heard clips of it.

Either way it's just another example of an unoriginal artist getting a number one hit based on the fact that he was on a popular tv show.

[livefan86]

What are the rest of the lyrics to that song? I didn't think it was a song written about the troops but then I've only heard clips of it.

Either way it's just another example of an unoriginal artist getting a number one hit based on the fact that he was on a popular tv show.

The song itself is not about the troops. Chris wrote it when he was away from home about his feelings on his family and friends. I think the record label is just going with the troop approach to the song.

[being_saved]

The song itself is not about the troops. Chris wrote it when he was away from home about his feelings on his family and friends. I think the record label is just going with the troop approach to the song.

Hey sorry to like be mean and all but i hate to break it to you, but you are WRONG about Chris writing it about his friends and family. in fact he wrote it about going home to God, and salvation, and Jesus. So ya sorry to burst your bubble but that what he said on his website that it is about God.